8:30 p.m., Animal Collective (G): The trippy melodic pleasures of the occasional album aside (“Merriweather Post Pavilion” in 2009), this Baltimore collective is up and down in concert, ecstatic crescendos sometimes few and far between long bouts of zone-out noodling.

XXXX 6:30 p.m., Das Racist (B): Clever surrealists sprinkle their raps with pop-culture references, jokes and wayward glimpses of insight; after a series of winning mix tapes, their official debut, “Relax,” is due in September.

6:25 p.m., Guided By Voices (G): Robert Pollard reassembles his garage-rock band for a bunch of really short, brilliant songs that’ll provide plenty of 1994 flashbacks. Where were you when “I Am a Scientist” was almost a hit?

5:30 p.m., Curren$y (B): The prolific mix-tape rapper from New Orleans is well-suited to headphone listening with his chorus-free delivery. But will his cannabis-worshiping streams of consciousness translate on a bigger stage?

XXXX 4:35 p.m., Battles (G): ThisNew York band tranforms complex ideas and rhythms into buoyant, ridiculously catchy tunes. Worth it just to watch the mighty John Stanier attack the drums.

XXXX 4:30 p.m., Tune-Yards (G): Merrill Garbus puts every available limb to work, thrashing a ukulele while looping her voice into a choir and pounding a drum. Her second album, “Whokill,” ranks with the year’s best.

XXXX 3:30 p.m., EMA (R): The head-on collision between melody and noise, orchestrated by a vocalist who insinuates, coos, converses and cries – that’s the approach of thisSouth Dakota native on her bracing debut, “Past Life Martyred Saints.”

XXXX 7:25 p.m., DJ Shadow (R): The auteur behind the now-legendary “Endtroducing …” album that reinvented the art of sampling in the ‘90s is back with “The Less You Know the Better” in September. Let’s hope he previews a few tracks, such as the jumping single “I Am Excited.”

6:45 p.m., Twin Shadow (B): George Lewis Jr. replicates the flashy keyboards and soul-rock flourishes of mid-'80s Prince, without bringing much new to his Paisley Park retro.

1:55 p.m., Sun Airway (B):Philadelphia electro duo has a way with pretentious album titles (“Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier”) and Coldplay-like songcraft.

1:45 p.m., Woods (R): In case you missed the Dave Matthews Caravan the weekened before and are looking for a guitar jam to break out, it’s likeliest to happen during the set by this genre-blending psychedelic outfit.

XXXX 1 p.m., Julianna Barwick (G): The Brooklyn artist electronically loops her voice from a lone whisper to a choir.

XXXX 8:30 p.m., TV on the Radio (G): One of the finest bands of the last decade threw a curve with its latest album, “Nine Types of Light” (Interscope). It’s lower key, more ballad heavy and atypically full of love songs.

7:40 p.m., HEALTH (B): Part of the same Los Angeles punk scene that spawned No Age, this quartet loves to pit electronic distortion against relatively mellow, melodic vocals.